Recycling inkjet cartridges - new poll

HP is to introduce a scheme whereby individual users can return inkjet cartridges for recycling. See click here for details.

I'm interested in your opinions - not where to get cheap cartridges, but what you think of the idea of recycling cartridges and whether you'd participate in a scheme that offers no financial incentive to recycle and might not even pay your postage.

So there's a new poll up on the home page, and if you want to make more detailed comments do so here.

We'll be writing this up in an upcoming issue of PCA so remember to indicate whether you want to be quoted by your real name, your forum name or not at all.

HP hasn't finalised the details of this scheme yet, so it would be good to be able to go back to them with a statistically meaningful response and possibly shape their policy for the UK.

I'm sure Tesco used to have a recycling scheme. just take your old cartridge and drop it into Customer Services when you get your groceries.

I don't know whether they still do that as my use of inkjet cartridges has dropped to almost nil since acquiring a laser printer - which I do refill myself. The occasional colour photo is about all I print in colour now.

I can't see any recycling scheme being successful if it costs money, even just a stamp, to take part.